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Food Day at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.
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Food Day organizers asked shoppers to sign the California's Food Day Petition. By Tuesday over 16,000 people from around the state had signed it.
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Gov. Deval Patrick helped glean leftover crops for use in food banks and soup kitchens.
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Youth Food Day festivities at the East Atlanta Farmers Market.
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Celebrity chef Mario Batali and Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me dined with an array of food movement activists in Times Square to mark the day.
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Food Day signage up on the screens in Times Square.
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Sweet strawberry costumes at a Seattle farmers market. (Photo by Deborah Gardner.)
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An Ecology Center tour of the woman-run La Tercera Farm in Petaluma, Calif.
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Spreading the good Food Day word at Seattle's Columbia City Farmers Market. (Photo by Deborah Gardner.)
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D.C. celebrated Food Day with a plethora of food trucks.
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Farmer Erin Flynn spoke at Andrews Elementary in Austin, Texas.
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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers spent the day outside of Trader Joe's (where they urged customers to put pressure on the company to sign on to the Fair Food Agreement for tomato workers).
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Food Day: Photos from celebrations around the country

By Grist staff

Last weekend, eaters from around the country celebrated the first annual Food Day (Oct. 24). It’s an event modeled after Earth Day, but seeing as how the food movement is the new environmental movement, it wouldn’t surprise us if Food Day outpaced Earth Day within a few years.

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Food Day: Photos from celebrations around the country

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